Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of August 22, 2023

Steven P DenBaars

UCSB, Professor & Co-Director.

Professor and entrepreneur experienced in higher education and startups. Specializes in semiconductor research, materials science, and electronics like LEDs and lasers. Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, and IEEE.

Patent №: 11735419 (August 22, 2023) – Method for processing of semiconductor films with reduced evaporation and degradation.

David Petrou

Founder and CEO of Continua AI.

David was a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, leading teams deploying machine intelligence directly on devices like Pixel and across Android generally, using privacy-preserving technologies such as Federated Learning.

Mr.Petrou believes in enhancing people’s capabilities through AI-powered augmentation. Based in NYC, he was a founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass and has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He is deeply passionate about innovation: the art of trying many things rapidly, to create and bring new products that change our thinking on what’s possible.

Patent №: 11734287 (August 22, 2023) – Mapping images to search queries.

The system takes in an image and related entities, then identifies possible search queries linked to those entities. It scores each query for relevance and picks the most relevant one as the representative search query for the image. This chosen query is then provided as the output.

William J Leise

Consultant at State Farm.

Patent №: 11734770 (August 22, 2023) – Using a distributed ledger to determine fault in subrogation.

Chris Phillips

Sr Director Advanced R&D at Adeia.

Mr. Phillips is a seasoned tech leader with expertise in areas like advertising, media, and video encoding across various devices. He leads agile teams that quickly turn research into prototypes, focusing on market trends and innovation.

His teams have won innovation competitions, and his current focus is on low-latency video delivery and quality optimization in industries like telecom and the Internet.

Patent №: 11736550 (August 22, 2023) – System and method for optimizing defragmentation of content in a content delivery network.

The system improves how content is organized in a content delivery network. It checks if any content pieces are missing from a local storage and uses past delivery patterns to figure out which versions of the missing pieces to get. Then, it fetches these from another part of the network.

Mustafa Nazmi Kaynak

System Architect – Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Micron Technology.

Experienced in designing storage systems, especially SSDs and HDDs. Skilled in memory management, performance modeling, and coding in Python, C++, and Matlab. Interested in applying machine learning to storage solutions.

Patent №: 11735254 (August 22, 2023) – Error avoidance based on voltage distribution parameters of blocks. The method involves reading data from a memory device. It uses a mapping system to find the voltage settings for the specific memory block. Then, it uses these settings to read the data from that block accurately.

Douglas Martin

Controls and Software Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company.

Patent №: 11733691 (August 22, 2023) – Remote controlled engine revving.

The system allows users to rev the engine to a specific speed using a command, without having to press the accelerator pedal. It can also produce a revving sound based on user input.